{"id":2041987,"date":"2025-09-22T21:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2041987"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:15:03","slug":"fcc-chairman-says-his-easy-way-or-the-hard-way-comment-about-jimmy-kimmel-wasnt-meant-as-a-threat-to-pull-licenses-if-abc-didnt-fire-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fcc-chairman-says-his-easy-way-or-the-hard-way-comment-about-jimmy-kimmel-wasnt-meant-as-a-threat-to-pull-licenses-if-abc-didnt-fire-him\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Chairman Says His \u201cEasy Way Or The Hard Way\u201d Comment About Jimmy Kimmel Wasn\u2019t Meant As A Threat To Pull Licenses If ABC Didn\u2019t Fire Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Before ABC announced that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0453994\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> would return to his show on Tuesday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0042869\/\">FCC<\/a> Chairman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1419715\/\">Brendan Carr<\/a> sought to explain what he meant last week when he warned ABC and its stations that \u201cwe can do this the easy way or the hard way\u201d in addressing the late-night host\u2019s remarks about the suspect in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6135760\/\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n<p>At the Concordia Summit in New York on Monday morning, Carr denied that he had threatened to pull licenses of ABC stations if they did not fire Kimmel. He said that \u201cdid not happen in any way, shape or form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carr said that \u201cwhat I spoke about last week is that when concerns are raised about news distortion \u2026 there\u2019s an easy way for parties to address that and work that out. In the main, that takes place between local television stations that are licensed by the FCC and what we call national programmers like Disney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel would return to his show on Tuesday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sought to explain what he meant last week when he warned ABC and its stations that \u201cwe can do this the easy way or the hard way\u201d in addressing the late-night host\u2019s remarks about the suspect in Charlie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2041987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FCC-Chairman-Says-His-Easy-Way-Or-The-Hard-Way.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}